Bobby’s Homemade Bubbles and Wands

Avigail and Juju are attending “Bobby Camp” and one of the favorite morning activities is playing with the water table on my front porch. After breakfast and our morning walk, when the two of them are still in pajamas, we fill up the water table and have a good and messy time playing with all the water toys. Best of all, when we are finished, everyone gets bathed and then changed and dressed for the day.

While we were outside playing, the kids asked Davida to blow bubbles or as seventeen month old Juju likes to say, “Bubboos”. I did not have any bubbles or bubble wands, so we decided to make our own. Davida fashioned some bubble wands out of pipe cleaners, straws and string. Avigail was delighted that one of them was purple, her favorite color. We mixed water, dish detergent and pancake syrup, stirred gently…and voila. The magic of bubbles was added to our messy water activities.

This was one of those simple things that created a wow of a time at the water table.

We sang as we blew and popped bubbles…”Avigail is a bubble blower, bubble blower, bubble blower!” “JuJu is a bubble popper, bubble popper, bubble popper…”

SUPPLIES

container with a flat bottom

3 cup water

1/2 cup dish soap

drizzle of pancake or corn syrup (about 2-3 tablespoons)

scissors

straws

string

Pipe cleaners

DIRECTIONS

Place water in a bowl or container. Carefully add soap and syrup, stirring gently, being careful not to foam up the bubble mixture.

Create bubble wands using pipe cleaners that are looped. You can create different size loops to form differ size bubbles.

Create large bubble wands by cutting straws in half and tying string around each of the straws, top and bottom. To secure the string, cut a small slit near the end of each straw for the knotted string to rest. This will keep the string from coming off the end of the straw.